Australia Private Capital Expenditure

Private capital expenditure in Australia decreased unexpectedly by 1.7 percent quarter-on-quarter in the three months to March 2019, following a downwardly revised 1.3 percent growth in the previous period and missing market expectations of a 0.5 percent gain. Expenditures fell for both buildings and structures (-2.8 percent vs 2.5 percent in Q4), and equipment, plant and machinery (-0.5 percent vs flat reading). Through the year to the first quarter, private capital expenditure contracted 1.9 percent. Private Investment in Australia averaged 1.34 percent from 1987 until 2019, reaching an all time high of 15.60 percent in the second quarter of 1996 and a record low of -8.60 percent in the third quarter of 2015.

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Calendar	GMT		Actual	Previous	Consensus	TEForecast
2018-08-30	01:30 AM	Private Capital Expenditure QoQ Q2	-2.5%	1.2%	0.6%	1%
2018-11-29	12:30 AM	Private Capital Expenditure QoQ Q3	-0.5%	-0.9%	1%	0.75%
2019-02-28	12:30 AM	Private Capital Expenditure QoQ Q4	2%	0%	0.5%	1%
2019-05-30	01:30 AM	Private Capital Expenditure QoQ Q1	-1.7%	1.3%	0.5%	0.2%
2019-08-30	01:30 AM	Private Capital Expenditure QoQ Q2		-1.7%		-0.6%
2019-11-29	12:30 AM	Private Capital Expenditure QoQ Q3

Australia Business	Last	Previous	Highest	Lowest	Unit
Business Confidence	2.00	7.00	21.00	-30.00	Index Points	[+]
Services PMI	52.20	52.50	63.00	32.50	Index Points	[+]
Manufacturing PMI	49.43	52.72	62.50	29.47		[+]
Industrial Production	1.20	3.00	12.60	-7.60	percent	[+]
Industrial Production Mom	0.50	0.30	5.20	-7.10	percent	[+]
Manufacturing Production	-1.30	-0.50	8.60	-11.80	percent	[+]
Capacity Utilization	82.06	80.88	84.62	78.24	percent	[+]
New Orders	36.00	22.00	49.00	-37.00	Index Points	[+]
Changes in Inventories	460.00	1048.00	4159.00	-3848.00	AUD Million	[+]
Bankruptcies	772.00	615.00	1123.00	217.00	Companies	[+]
Corporate Profits	93026.00	91428.00	93026.00	12032.00	AUD Million	[+]
Total Vehicle Sales	117817.00	92561.00	130300.00	48099.00		[+]
Car Registrations	14330.43	14078.57	14330.43	3990.94	Thousand	[+]
Leading Economic Index	-0.10	-0.08	0.54	-1.10	percent	[+]
Small Business Sentiment	-4.92	-1.60	18.55	-21.17		[+]
Internet Speed	11063.10	10098.33	11063.10	1922.87	KBps	[+]
IP Addresses	9859878.00	9310525.00	13859005.00	5227461.00	IP	[+]
Industrial Sentiment	52.00	51.00	57.20	50.90	Index Points	[+]
Private Investment	-1.70	1.30	15.60	-8.60	percent	[+]
Mining Production	3.20	6.80	25.20	-16.90	percent	[+]
Steel Production	493.54	472.14	819.00	238.00	Thousand Tonnes	[+]
Services Sentiment	52.60	51.50	58.40	48.70	Index Points	[+]
Corruption Index	77.00	77.00	88.60	77.00	Points	[+]
Corruption Rank	13.00	13.00	13.00	7.00		[+]
Competitiveness Index	78.85	78.17	78.85	5.08	Points	[+]
Competitiveness Rank	14.00	15.00	22.00	14.00		[+]
Composite Pmi	52.50	51.50	58.30	49.10	Index Points	[+]
Business Inventories	0.70	0.00	2.80	-2.80	percent	[+]
Ease of Doing Business	18.00	14.00	18.00	9.00		[+]

Australia Private Capital Expenditure

Private investment in Australia refers to quarter on quarter change in Private Capital Expenditure. The Capital Expenditure Survey in Australia includes the following industries: Mining, Manufacturing & Other selected industries such as Electricity, Gas, Water and Waste Services, Construction, Wholesale Trade, Retail Trade, Transport, Postal and Warehousing, Information Media and Telecommunications Finance and Rental, Hiring and Real Estate Services Professional, Scientific and Technical Services. This page provides - Australia Private Investment- actual values, historical data, forecast, chart, statistics, economic calendar and news. Australia Private Capital Expenditure - actual data, historical chart and calendar of releases - was last updated on July of 2019.